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lauravenning.bsky.social
Film critic, queer, Jane Campion champion, words for Curzon, Little White Lies, Empire, BBC Culture, London Critics’ Circle member. I pick my skin too much x ✉️ [email protected] ✍️ lauravenning.com / https://lauravenning.substack.com/
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babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months

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finally, my masterpiece, now on Bluesky

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For my Men’s Health Mag debut, I ranked every sad man in space movie - with Mickey 17 arguably adding another 18 to the list www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...

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In the latest issue of @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, Sophie Monks Kaufman beautifully reviews The Stimming Pool. Alongside it I have written a short guide to three more films by neurodivergent filmmakers to celebrate the Stims Collective season Stimema: The Neurodiverse World On Screen.

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Anyway the most imp thing I have to share rn is this event I’m co-hosting with some lovely friends, hopefully the first of many! Pls share far & wide with any London based literary types who might be keen! Event is free & byob, readers to be announced soon on our IG @ reenchantmentldn x

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Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage

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I’m introducing two David Lynch gems at MAC Birmingham next month: Lost Highway (Saturday, 12 April) and Mulholland Drive (Saturday, 19 April). Details are in the links below!

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The person who raped and murdered his ex girlfriend and murdered her sister and mother, from Enfield, where I live, was searching the internet for Andrew Tate podcasts the night before. Wake the fuck up. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Accidentally has a glamorous evening when I spent the day applying for jobs and cleaning the bathroom 🚽

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We are very cute 😇🙂‍↕️

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do you ever think about how absurd the concept of a michelin star is? he is a man made of tyres

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@xuanlintham.bsky.social chats to @theskinnymag.bsky.social all about Revolutionary Desires, officially out Thursday! www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...

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No Other Land is free to view in the UK right now: www.channel4.com/programmes/n...

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The Last Showgirl is out today! I reviewed it for @empiremagazine.bsky.social www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

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I wrote about having a bad time aged 11, kind of through the lens of one of my favourite films of all time ♥️ lauravenning.substack.com/p/picnic-at-...

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My mum is sending me not one but two Gene Hackman DVDs in the post, hell yeah

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What happens when you translate a cinematic vow of chastity to the most maximalist form of theatre? I explored the Royal Opera House production of FESTEN for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/articles/fes...

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The Gene Hackman news is so fucking sad, but this is a really beautiful thread. RIP.

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Breaking News: Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar winner who gave nuanced performances in films like “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” died at 95. nyti.ms/4h8iyJa

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Job listing asking for a 'huge personality' ffs idek if I have a medium sized one

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Oh my god, this is so awful

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PETITION UPDATE! Thank you for all your support thus far! Negotiations with the landlord have resumed & are now feeling more positive that we will be able to get a lease without a break clause. There is still a long road ahead. Read the statement from Managing Director Ben Freedman in the images.

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wonderful to know i have the same creative process as charlie chaplin

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🎨: Cerne Abbas Giant, by Eric Ravilious, c. 1939.

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On the one side you have every writer, artist, musician, actor, director, and comedian ever to create anything worthwhile, on the other you have Elon Musk, Bankman-Fried, and people whose idea of artistic creation is to type "big titty Supergirl" as a prompt. Of course Labour side with the latter.

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Google obliterated their search function for this

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People keep sharing this Sam Fender quote from the Sunday Times and while I think there is something in this – it feels bizarre that, in the midst of what is fundamentally a backlash against feminism + LGBT rights, everyone is so eager to dance around the obvious answer, which is primarily misogyny

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I see a lot of you still stanning Eleanor of Aquitaine even after she went off calling all the gentlewomen of Carolingian France poxy slatterns. And like, these were not youthful mistakes from the 1130s. She was using the s-word as recently as 1201.

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Readers fear she's getting personal in her latest substack xx

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Just realised the girl from this week's blind date was in my first year uni house and I'm so glad she had a really nice date 😇 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Oh jesus christ

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for @lwlies.com i wrote about chantal akerman and trying to make sense of losing someone to suicide. the way we look through the things left behind like clues, to try and tell a story that makes sense of the senseless, one that we can never quite find. lwlies.com/articles/mak...

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How some towns are saving their local movie houses: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

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Updating my CV, guys is Geneva a cool font??

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